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HAMAL
Definition of HAMAL
noun
A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl, “porter”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAMAL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAHLM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HAMAL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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